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GRADE 10 HL LANGUAGE EXAM PAPER
Below is a brief analysis of the contents of this exam paper. We hope that you will find the information useful when looking for a question on a specific area of language for testing or when checking for questions which are not suitable for your learners.
Please note that the questions and memoranda are set according to the ‘Examination Guidelines’ from the DBE. The cognitive levels according to Barrett’s Taxonomy of Reading Comprehension have been indicated for the reading comprehension. We would like to point out that we found some variation in the interpretation of the type of questions in the papers we received from teachers. Some questions are more difficult to categorise but we have tried our best to ensure that they comply with the descriptors in Barrett’s Taxonomy. The cognitive levels are distributed according to the prescribed recommendations as far as possible so as to allow for the different levels of complexity at which the language is being assessed.
Comprehension skills: lifestyle section; antonym; literal and figurative; figures of speech – euphemism/ irony/synecdoche/metonymy; full stop in abbreviation; visual literacy
Summarising skills: write a prose form summary of 80 – 90 words
Language
Vocabulary: Anglicised; subcultures; divergent; adjectives; vulnerable; cliché;
Mr vs Mr.
Idiom: throwing in the towel
Spelling: loser / looser; write / right; their / they are; to / too Analysing an advertisement: product and target market; pun; visual literacy; understand humour
Understanding other aspects of the media: synonym; visual literacy; explain humour
Using language correctly: dictionary skills; noun; verb; idiomatic expressions; correction of errors; concord; spelling; punctuation – capitalisation and apostrophe
Total number of pages: 12 pages
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